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UNFINISHED BUSINESS
Bill No: SCR 72
Author: Maldonado (R), et al
Amended: 5/25/06
Vote: 21
SENATE TRANSPORTATION & HOUSING COMMITTEE : 13-0, 4/4/06
AYES: Lowenthal, McClintock, Ashburn, Cedillo, Ducheny,
Dutton, Kehoe, Machado, Margett, Runner, Simitian, Soto,
Torlakson
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE : Senate Rule 28.8
SENATE FLOOR : 38-0, 4/27/06
AYES: Aanestad, Ackerman, Alarcon, Alquist, Ashburn,
Bowen, Cedillo, Chesbro, Cox, Denham, Ducheny, Dunn,
Dutton, Escutia, Figueroa, Florez, Hollingsworth, Kehoe,
Kuehl, Lowenthal, Machado, Maldonado, Margett,
McClintock, Migden, Morrow, Murray, Ortiz, Perata,
Poochigian, Romero, Runner, Scott, Simitian, Soto,
Speier, Torlakson, Vincent
NO VOTE RECORDED: Battin, Vacancy
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 76-0, 8/7/06 - See last page for vote
SUBJECT : Vernon L. Sturgeon Memorial Highway AND
Marilyn Jorgenson Reece Memorial Interchange
SOURCE : Author
DIGEST : This resolution designates a segment of State
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Highway Route 101 in San Luis Obispo County between Spring
Street in Paso Robles and Santa Barbara Road in Atascadero
as the Vernon L. Sturgeon Memorial Highway, and designates
the Interstate 10 and Interstate 405 interchange, also
known as the San Diego-Santa Monica Freeway Interchange, in
the City of Los Angeles, as the Marilyn Jorgenson Reece
Memorial Interchange.
Assembly Amendments designated the Interstate 10 and
Intestate 405 interchange in Los Angeles as the Marilyn
Jorgenson Reece Memorial Interchange, added the necessary
legislative findings relative to the Marilyn Jorgenson
Reece Memorial Interchange, and added Senator Bowen as a
coauthor.
ANALYSIS :
1.This resolution makes the following legislative findings
relative to Vernon L. Sturgeon:
A. Vernon L. Sturgeon, a former State Senator from
San Luis Obispo County served in the State Senate
from 1961 to 1966. He subsequently served as a
legislative liaison for Governor Reagan, deputy
director of Public Works (the predecessor agency to
Caltrans) and a member of the California Public
Utilities Commission from 1969 to 1979.
B. During Senator Sturgeon's tenure in the State
Senate, he was Chair of the Committee on Social
Welfare and a member of the Senate Agriculture,
Insurance & Financial Institutions, Public Health &
Safety and Transportation committees.
C. Senator Vernon L. Sturgeon played a significant
role in securing the temporary site for the original
Cuesta College, and was instrumental in securing
funds for a number of projects and California
Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo. Also,
through his efforts, the library at Hearst Castle
was made available to University of California
students for research.
D. Senator Vernon L. Sturgeon carried the
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appropriations bill in the Senate for funding the
construction of State Highway Route 46 from Paso
Robles to the coast in San Luis Obispo County.
E. Senator Vernon L. Sturgeon died on November 7,
2004, and was survived by his wife, Edythe Sturgeon,
daughters Elaine Healey and Carolyn Rexius, son Rick
Sturgeon, brother Wilmer Sturgeon, sister Mildred
Barclay, eight grandchildren, and 11
great-grandchildren.
2.This resolution makes the following legislative findings
relative to Marilyn Jorgenson Reece:
A. Marilyn Jorgenson Reece moved to Los Angeles with
her parents shortly after graduation in 1948, and
went to work for the State Division of Highways,
which later became the Department of Transportation,
as a junior civil engineer in Los Angeles.
B. After six years of experience required to sit for
the Professional Engineers Exam, Marilyn Jorgenson
Reece became the state's first fully licensed female
civil engineer in 1954.
C. In 1962, Marilyn Jorgenson Reece received the
Governor's Design Excellence Award from Governor Pat
Brown for designing the Interstate 10 and Interstate
405 interchange.
D. Marilyn Jorgenson Reece became the Division of
Highway's first woman resident engineer for
construction projects shortly after receiving that
award.
E. The three-level Interstate 10 and Interstate 405
interchange designed by Marilyn Jorgenson Reece
opened in 1964 and was the first interchange
designed in California by a woman engineer.
F. During her 35-year career, Marilyn Jorgenson
Reece's projects included serving as senior engineer
for the completion of State Highway Route 210
through Sunland in 1975, at the time, the largest
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construction project the Department of
Transportation had ever awarded, at $40 million.
G. In 1991, Marilyn Jorgenson Reece received life
membership in the American Society of Civil
Engineers.
The Legislature hereby officially designates that portion
of State Highway Route 101 between Spring Street in Paso
Robles and Santa Barbara Road in Atascadero in San Luis
Obispo County, as the Vernon L. Sturgeon Memorial Highway
and designates the Interstate 10 and Interstate 405
interchange, also known as the San Diego-Santa Monica
Freeway Interchange, in the City of Los Angeles, as the
Marilyn Jorgenson Reece Memorial Interchange and request
the Department of Transportation to determine the costs of
appropriate plaques and markers, consistent with the
signing requirements for the state highway system, showing
these special designations, and upon receiving donations
from nonstate sources sufficient to cover the cost to erect
those plaques and markers.
FISCAL EFFECT : Fiscal Com.: Yes
SUPPORT : (Verified 8/8/06)
Tom Bordonaro, Jr., San Luis Obispo County Assessor
Frank R. Martinez, President-Superintendent, Cuesta
College, Retired
Robert E. Kennedy, President Emeritus, California
Polytechnic State
University, San Luis Obispo
Peter Arth, Jr., Chief-of Staff to PUC President
California Transportation Foundation
ASSEMBLY FLOOR :
AYES: Aghazarian, Arambula, Baca, Bass, Benoit, Berg,
Bermudez, Blakeslee, Bogh, Calderon, Canciamilla, Chan,
Chavez, Chu, Cogdill, Cohn, Coto, Daucher, De La Torre,
DeVore, Dymally, Emmerson, Evans, Frommer, Garcia,
Goldberg, Hancock, Haynes, Jerome Horton, Shirley Horton,
Huff, Jones, Karnette, Keene, Klehs, Koretz, La Malfa, La
Suer, Laird, Leno, Leslie, Levine, Lieber, Lieu, Liu,
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Matthews, McCarthy, Montanez, Mountjoy, Mullin,
Nakanishi, Nation, Nava, Negrete McLeod, Niello, Parra,
Pavley, Plescia, Richman, Ridley-Thomas, Sharon Runner,
Ruskin, Saldana, Salinas, Spitzer, Strickland, Torrico,
Tran, Umberg, Vargas, Villines, Walters, Wolk, Wyland,
Yee, Nunez
NO VOTE RECORDED: Houston, Maze, Oropeza, Vacancy
JJA:do 8/8/06 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE
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